The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-10

time at the rate of 9, 800 per hour.
New YORK Italians are trying to secure
site in Central Park, near the bust Of
Mezzini, for statue Of Garibaldi.
ALEXANDER b. COKE, JR., of New York,
is said to be the biggest man at Yale, his
weight being given as 81 pounds.
Mrs. STEPHEN B. ELKINs recently pre-.
sented a library consisting of s4OO worth of
books to the town of Davis, W. Va.
SECRETARY LAMONT gets the handsome
salary of 81 1000, President Cleveland pay
ing him $500 out of his own pocket.
THE value of manufactured articles
In this country surpasses the value of
those made in Great Britain by more than
So, 1000.
IT being tolerably certain that the world
is not to come to an end before the year
5000, New York may yet have Grant
monument.
In regard to the present situation in
Europe General Wolseley says: "A vast
and appalling war is certainty in the
near future,
THE latest distinguished lady who thinks
of becoming an actress is Ethel Chase, the
daughter of Ex-Governor Sprague, Of
Rhode Island.
A NEBRASKA man who recently died at
the age of 10s, was shipwreckcd many
years ago and swan nine miles with wo-
man on his back.
THERE have been just admitted to the
poor-house of Beaver County, Pa, man
and his wife and five children, three of
whom were triplets.
A NEW pocket camera has been invented.
It is enclosed in an ordinary silver watch
case, and is said to do very good work by
the dry-plate process.
CAPTAIN ROBERT W. ANDREWS, of Boston,
who is in his ninety-seventh year, wants
to challenge any man of his age to match
at walking or jumping.
JUNE q has been decided upon as the
date for a national celebration of the
Queens Jubilee day in England, and it
will be declared a holiday.
MRS. KATE CHASE is making arrange
ments for the publication Of the biography
Of her father, the late Chief Justice, which
she has undertaken to write.
PAoLA, KAN, has q natural gas spouter
that blew plumber into the roof Of
derrick, nearly killing him. He was test
ing the pressure and found out.
TENNEssEE's Senate has rejected bill
appropriating s1,SOO for monument to
George Peabody, through whose benev.
olence the State was great gamer.
Born Carl Schurz and Ben Butler are
suffering from severe falls on the side
walk, the former having slipped in New
York and the latter in Philadelphia.
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RICHARD PESN1srAS, actor. has inst been
admitted to the Forrest Home in Philadei.
phia. In 1873 Pennistan drew sOO.OO in
the ROYAL Havana Lottery. but his good
luck was his ruin, and for a number Of
years he has been penniless.
SAN JONES says: "If l wanted to get
good, square judgment on something l
had done l had rather 60 to newspaper OF.
flee for it than any other court of Justice.
know the justice of journals, their inteR.
rity and the purity of their motiyes.n
NOSE GIBSON, negro, eighty seven
years old, walks to Washington, Ca, and
oack daily, distance OF eight miles, car.
rying the mail for the family that owned
him before the war, thus earning board
and clothing for himself and his old wife.
MAUNA LoA, Hawaii's great volcano, 10
again vomiting fire upon the island and in.
A river Of fire fourteen miles long
went tearing down the mountain to tho sec
for number OF days, but the aow Of lava
At iast accounts, was gradually ceasing.
SoxE years ago the Solons Of the Ar.
kansas Legislature met in due form and
passed solemn enactment TO the effect
hat the State should henceforth and for.